The Event That Irrevocably Changed the Destiny of Ashkenazic...
In Tisha B’Av Kinah 25 we mourn the loss of the Jews of the Rhineland, the center of Judaism, including Speyer, Worms, & Mainz in the First Crusade. OU Tisha B’Av...
A Fair Maiden or a Demon? The 26th and...
Jeremiah encounters a being, symbolic of the Jewish nation, she appears to be both a fair maiden and a demon: An explanation of the 26th and 27th Kinot.
The 10th Kinnah: Mishmaros Kehunah & The Valley of...
The Impact and Loss of Each Distinct Kehillah Rabbi Weil discusses the 10th Kinah which discusses the loss of the mishmarot kehunah and it’s parallel to Yad VaShem’s Valley of Communities.
The Millennial Generation: Kinot 22 & 25 – The...
A Watershed Moment in Ashkenazic Jewry. The first crusade, like the death of the students of Rabbi Akiva would have wiped out the entire mesorah, had it not been for Rabbi...
Kinah 11: The Man Who Could Have Stopped the...
Who was Yoshiyahu and how could he have stopped the churban? He, like Moshe, built up the Jewish nation from nothing (Torah-wise) but he made 1 fatal flaw.
The 23rd Kinnah – The Seventh Million
The Survivors’ Unspoken Tragedy. We can’t relate to large numbers like 6 million. We can, on the other hand, relate to individuals, like Anne Frank. This is the idea of Kinnah 23...
The Three Weeks and Tisha b’Av
The Rambam states in the Mishnah Torah that the purpose of fast days is to arouse us to do Teshuvah, not simply to refrain from food and drink.
By Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Tisha B’av Kinot 5771: Rabbi Weil
“Tears of Faith…Visions of Hope” – Rabbi Weil’s Kinot from Tisha B’Av 5771. As humans, we cannot relate to macro destruction intellectually or emotionally. We can relate to personal accounts. Only...
Tisha B’av Kinot 5771: Rabbi Weinreb
Rabbi Weinreb regrets an error he made in the Tisha B’Av 2011 presentation. He spoke of Eyal Noked, z”l, who died of a tragic illness, but was not the victim of...
By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
Tisha B’Av Video 5771: Rabbi Weinreb
The Holocaust was radically different than any tragedy before it. Does it warrant its own day of mourning or should it be mourned on Tisha B’Av?
By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
